VE 144 The Band: King Harvest (Has Surely Come) Neil Young: Harvest Avett Brothers: I And Love And You Rascals: How Can I Be Sure John Lennon: Isolation REM: Feeling Gravity’s Pull Ray LaMontagne: Old Before Your Time Buddy Miles: Them Changes Jayhawks: Two Hearts Rolling Stones: Sitting On A Fence Led Zeppelin: Celebration Day Pete Townshend: Pure …

VE 329 5 5 17 The Beatles: Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (Take 9) The Beatles: With A Little Help From My Friends (Take 1 False Start and Take 2) The Beatles: Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band/With A Little Help From My Friends (original mono LP and 2017 remix) Joe Cocker: With A Little Help From My Friends …

Today on the VE, unwrapping some post-Thanksgiving leftovers. Worthy songs by some of rock’s greatest, that never made it to their original album projects until hunger for a fresh bite brought them out of refrigeration.

David has a wide ranging discussion with famous cartoonist (also musician and writer) Robert Crumb. They talk about AIDS, including their mutual friendship with Christine Maggiore, sex, puritanism, Charlie Hebdou and censorship.

To change the world, says Jan Willis, we need hope. And hope grows from nonviolent actions, no matter how small. Sharing this tiny planet amidst a vast universe, we are all interconnected beings, incapable even for a nanosecond of complete independence. Yet we conduct our lives as though we each possessed complete and ultimate control of our individual, isolated universes. We …

Meria interviews John Potash on his latest book “Drugs As Weapons Against Us, The CIA’s Murderous Targeting of SDS, Panthers, Hendrix, Lennon, Cobain, Tupac and Other Activists”. The war on drugs is a war on us; Tupac was a serious political activist as was his family; Co-intel-pro took him out; radical black movements targeted, media never covered them properly; Lennon, Hendrix, Cobain into left politics (thus a threat); Drugs used against them; Brian Jones of the Stones murdered; was Michael Jackson targeted? US intel gets them on drugs, then uses them, then kills them; MKUltra; war on dissidents; anti-war movements; all drugged today; Elvis and his handlers; Lennon on Elvis; Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love/MKUltra; Project Monarch; Assassins for the CIA; Alan Freed-scapegoated; Grateful Dead – who were they? Ronald Stark & U.S. Intel; dosing the Beatles and Stones and so much more.